The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A FRIGHTENED DEER dashed through the main
street of Salina. Pa, the other day and although
all the spOrtsmen in town turned out as soon as
they saw it, the deer escaped.
Ex-Gov. ALGER is said to have made from
S. 900, 900 to 100000 in Michigan pine lands.
When he went to Detroit to practice law at the
close of the war he was almost penniless
ONE of the sights of Fifth avenue, New York
is the daily promenade of set of triplets, all
girls, who are escorted by two nurses. The
children are five years old, and as alike as peas
and always beautifully dressed. 1t takes rich
New Workers to do this sort of thing.
The Congressman from the far Western States
will make neat little sums Of pin money out OF
their mileage allowance, which is 2oc a mile to
and from Washington The Oregon members
will each receive 81 $40 and the Arizona Dele
gate $1,000. Congressman Lee, of Virginia.
who lives within eight miles of the capital gets
only SO 20.
A LADY in Milton, Pa, who was accosted by a
rascal just at dusk the other evening defended
herself in a novel way. She was returning from
marketing and had in her basket a piece of
bologna sausage which she pointed at the fell
low, crying out: You scoundrel, II you touch
me I'll shoot you" Surprising it was a pistol
she had, the man took to his heels.
The Dutch in London have just opened new
club house for the Nederlandsche Vereenigug
at % Regent street. 1t is provided with Neither
landish books and papers, and Dutch, Flemish
and Tristan paintings and engravings, The
Dutch gave a Lord Mayor to London century
ago in Sir Theodore Jansen, and now the Flem-
ings haye Lord Mayor. Next year the club
has before it, on Nov. II, the two hundredth an
niversary of the landing of William, Prince of
Orange, at Torbay.
DAVID L. BOXER, tall, handsome man, with
a jet black moustache, sat in the corridor of the
Girard House putting cigar, in Philadelphia,
m Of har pvn TIa hai in D1tnlA In
Col. When he went West from New York a
dozen years ago, he had $3.50 when he landed in
Colorado. In little while he got interested in
a silver mine, struck it rich, made 800 900 in
six years and has made more than $50, 900, be-
sides. He sailed down Sl00,0O0, and now he s
come East to look at the improvements and
have good time.
A sHEoIAL from Akron, O., says: A sixteen
year-old German boy, named Conrad Getz, was
brought to this city from Kent yesterday, hav-
ing been arrested for offering for sale a horse
and buggy. They were identified as rig stolen
last Friday night, and are valued at $3.50. The
young thief came over from Germany only a
short time ago, his parents having died in the
Fatherland, and was stopping with friends here.
On him was found the contents of hand bag,
snatched from lady on the street in this city,
one night last week.
OXFORD JUNCTION, a small town in Iowa, is
excited over a suicide which occurred Wednes-
day afternoon. Ben Cusley and Charles A. Lo-
gan were rival suitors for the hand of Elizabeth
Watterson, II years old, daughter of a we'll
known farmer. The two men met at the girls
house, when desperate encounter ensued, the
victor to have the prize. CuSley was finally sue
cessful, drivAg away his rival at the point of
pistol. Logan was the favorite with the girl
and Wednesday afternoon she sent a bullet
through her heart.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE is made a
stubborn reality in Germany, but the resistance
of selfwilled childhood frequently enough vies
with the police in the effort to maintain itself in
the realm of fact The other day Maria
Pospiech, at GleiwitZ, Silesia, refused to go to
school, and her parents were unable to make
her go. A policeman came to fetch her. but she
jumped through the widow, and. being holly
pursued by the officer, she deliberately plunged
into the little river running near her parents
house. Standing in the water up TO her waist,
she would not be coaxed out and the officer,
to his duty found it necessary to go in after
her Then amusing chase in the water took
place. the mischlevous girl splashing the water
all over the blue-coat. But she was caught at
last and escorted to school, which she reached
dripping wet, and had to be undressed and
seated by the oven until her clothes were dry
again.